25 May 1950

Commons Sitting of 25 May 1950

  1. Preamble 8 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
    1. THAMES CONSERVANCY BILL 14 words
    2. BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order) 8 words
  4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
    1. EDUCATION
      1. Students' Grants 215 words
      2. Secondary Grammar Schools (Welsh Language) 181 words
      3. Spastic Children (Wales) 216 words
      4. Ceramics (Proposed College) 445 words
      5. Schools Midlands (Bibles) 191 words
      6. Training Colleges (Religious Instruction) 81 words
      7. Trained Teachers (Employment) 394 words
      8. Young Children (Training) 519 words
      9. Empire Day Celebrations 152 words
      10. Teachers' Salaries (London Allowance) 174 words
      11. University Entrance Requirements 129 words
      12. Technical Colleges 186 words
      13. U.N.E.S.C.O. Conference, Florence 109 words
      14. Burderope Park Training College 120 words
    2. B.B.C. (EMPIRE DAY COMMEMORATION) 229 words
    3. AUSTRALIA (BRITISH IMMIGRANTS) 499 words
    4. COMMONWEALTH TRADE (MEETINGS) 569 words
    5. TRADE AND COMMERCE
      1. Film Industry 381 words
      2. Malaya and Hong Kong (Internees' Claims) 215 words
      3. Overseas Trade Report 236 words
      4. Steel Exports 261 words
      5. Timber Supplies 281 words
    6. POLICE
      1. Summer Uniforms 118 words
      2. Traffic Duties, Hyde Park Corner 191 words
      3. Unattended Cars, Tothill Street 405 words
    7. BRITISH CITIZENSHIP 60 words
    8. CIVIL DEFENCE (ENROLMENT ELIGIBILITY) 674 words
    9. TAXICAB FARES, LONDON (INCREASE) 332 words
    10. STREET TRADERS, LONDON 173 words
    11. FISHING INDUSTRY 311 words
    12. MINISTRIES (ADMINISTRATIVE ECONOMY) 391 words
    13. CHILDREN'S HOMES (INSPECTION) 212 words
    14. PARLIAMENTARY PRIVATE SECRETARIES 214 words
    15. FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 293 words
    16. AGRICULTURE
      1. Attested Herds 52 words
      2. Statutory Instruments 1,211 words
    17. NEW COMMONS CHAMBER (OPENING DATE) 250 words
    18. MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT) 1,353 words
  5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 1,078 words
  6. FLOOD AND FIRE DAMAGE, CANADA (RELIEF MEASURES) 643 words
  7. MALTA (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) 800 words
  8. SCOTLAND (FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC COMMITTEE) 2,923 words
  9. ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN) 13 words
  10. ORDERS OF THE DAY
    1. FOREIGN COMPENSATION [MONEY] 129 words
    2. FOREIGN COMPENSATION BILL 17 words
      1. Clause 2.—(DISTRIBUTION OF COMPENSATION UNDER YUGOSLAV AND CZECHOSLOVAK AGREEMENTS.) 3,975 words
      2. Clause 5.—(OFFENCES.) 649 words
      3. New Clause.—(ENFORCEMENT OF ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES, PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS AND FURNISHING OF INFORMATION.) 275 words
    3. HIGHWAYS (PROVISION OF CATTLE-GRIDS) BILL 164 words
      1. Clause 1.—(PROVISION OF CATTLE-GRIDS AND BY-PASSES.) 457 words
      2. Clause 2.—(REMOVAL OF CATTLE-GRIDS AND DISCONTINUANCE OF BY-PASSES.) 1,409 words
      3. Clause 3.—(REPAIR OF CATTLE-GRIDS AND BY-PASSES IN ENGLAND.) 740 words
      4. Clause 7.—(SUPERSESSION OF GATES BY CATTLE-GRIDS.) 194 words
      5. Clause 9.—(AGREEMENTS FOR USE OF LAND FOR CATTLE-GRIDS OR BYPASSES.) 314 words
      6. New Clause.—(PROVISION OF CATTLE-GRIDS OFF ROADS.) 280 words
      7. Schedule.—(PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINATION BY APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY OF CERTAIN QUESTIONS.) 155 words
      8. TITLE 27 words
      9. New Clause.—(CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS EXPENDITURE OF APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES.) 1,738 words
      10. Clause 1.—(PROVISION OF CATTLE-GRIDS AND BY-PASSES.) 136 words
      11. Clause 14.—(PROVISIONS AS TO CATTLE-GRIDS AND BY-PASSES PROVIDED BEFORE COMMENCEMENT OF ACT.) 555 words
      12. Schedule.—(PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINATION BY APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY OF CERTAIN QUESTIONS.) 1,685 words
    4. COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL 13 words
      1. New Clause.—(ONUS OF PROOF AS TO CAUSE OF DAMAGE.) 1,636 words
      2. Schedule.—(DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF DEPRECIATION AND RECIPIENTS OF PAYMENTS.) 12,148 words
    5. MAINTENANCE ORDERS BILL [Lords] 16,117 words
    6. CENTRAL LAND BOARD (FORM L.39) 3,724 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 May 1950

  1. EDUCATION
    1. Voluntary Schools 58 words
    2. Swimming Instruction 94 words
    3. School Dental Service 80 words
    4. New Classrooms 111 words
    5. Administrative Memorandum No. 199 131 words
    6. School Inspectors, Wales 49 words
  2. TRADE AND COMMERCE
    1. Telephone Equipment (Exports) 96 words
    2. War Damage Claims, Far East 80 words
    3. Timber Control (Staff) 99 words
    4. Imported Monkeys (Mortality Rate) 142 words
  3. AGRICULTURE
    1. Cottages, Mendip Area 120 words
    2. Domestic Food Producers 113 words
    3. Village Produce Associations 310 words
    4. Potato Production 137 words
    5. Farmers' Working Capital 96 words
    6. Wool Marketing Scheme 60 words
    7. Colorado Beetle 135 words
    8. Rabbits (Destruction) 164 words
    9. Joiners (Softwood Allocations) 52 words
    10. Wool Clip (Disposal) 119 words
    11. Bridget's Farm, Martyr Worthy 70 words
    12. Committee's Officials, Radnor 232 words
    13. Smallholdings 78 words
    14. Cross-Drilling 87 words
    15. Lime (Cost) 57 words
  4. FORESTRY
    1. Commission's Activities 72 words
    2. Pit-Props (Prices) 80 words
    3. Private Woodlands (Press Conference) 47 words
  5. FISHING INDUSTRY
    1. Territorial Waters (Oil Discharge) 113 words
    2. Trawlers 116 words
  6. NATIONAL FINANCE
    1. American Company (Investment Project) 103 words
    2. Income Tax 109 words
    3. Purchase Tax 39 words
    4. Stamp Duty 76 words
    5. Double Taxation Agreements 128 words
    6. Entertainments Duty (Racecourses) 27 words
    7. Foreign Workers (Remittances Abroad) 153 words
    8. Currency Notes (Circulation) 54 words
    9. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ACT, 1949 235 words
    10. CAR PARKING (LEGLESS DRIVERS) 84 words
    11. FIRE ALARM POSTS 56 words
    12. MFTROPOLITAN SPECIAL CONSTABULARY 99 words
  7. PUBLIC HEALTH
    1. Dental Students 115 words
    2. Water Supply, Quedgeley 66 words
  8. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
    1. Tuberculosis Sanatoria (Waiting Lists) 102 words
    2. Under-Doctored Areas 122 words
    3. Drugs (Cost) 96 words
    4. Hearing Aids 66 words
    5. St. Paul's Cray 88 words
    6. Maudsley Hospital (Staff Attendance Book) 67 words
    7. Fertility Clinics 109 words
    8. Kingston Victoria Hospital 46 words
    9. Isolation Hospital, Wimbledon (Use) 76 words
    10. Spectacles (Bi-focal Lenses) 50 words
    11. Diabetics (Hypodermic Needles) 61 words
    12. German Measles (Notification) 60 words
    13. Tuberculosis (Medical Officers' Remuneration) 38 words
  9. HOUSING
    1. Building Costs 42 words
    2. Requisitioning, West Ham 74 words
    3. Rent Tribunals (Applications) 91 words
    4. Building Licences (Owner-Occupiers) 83 words
    5. Possession Orders 52 words
    6. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 78 words
    7. Private Building Licences 91 words
    8. Gateshead 65 words
    9. Statistics 76 words
    10. Softwood Supplies 130 words
    11. RATING (SITE VALUES REPORT) 39 words
    12. IDENTITY CARDS 43 words
    13. FACTORIES (EXPLOSIONS) 70 words
  10. MINISTRY OF PENSIONS
    1. Artificial Limbs 145 words
    2. Disabled Ex-Service Men (Widows) 74 words
    3. Motor Cars (Disablement Pensioners) 63 words
  11. FUEL AND POWER
    1. Branded Petrol 76 words
    2. Electricity Authority (Education and Training) 149 words
    3. Gas Council (Education and Training) 163 words
  12. COAL INDUSTRY
    1. Training, Education and Research 114 words
    2. Domestic Supplies 102 words
    3. Prices 504 words
  13. SCOTLAND
    1. White Fish Industry 142 words
    2. FISHING INDUSTRY (ACCIDENTS) 31 words
    3. Home Grown Wool 117 words
    4. Housing (Ex-Service Men) 267 words
  14. MINISTRY OF WORKS
    1. Requisitioned Shops, North London 116 words
    2. Government Property, France 19 words
    3. Building Applications, Edinburgh 230 words
    4. Housing, Scotland 68 words
    5. Building Labour Force 80 words
    6. Whitehall Gardens 25 words
    7. Lime (Transport Cost) 35 words
  15. FOOD SUPPLIES
    1. Milk Registration (Suspension) 99 words
    2. Meat Stocks 98 words
    3. Animal Slaughter 109 words
    4. Imports from Czechoslovakia 806 words
    5. Sheep (Slaughtering) 109 words
    6. WAR GRAVES (RELATIVES' VISITS) 55 words
    7. OLD AGE PENSIONS 48 words
    8. DOMINICA (BANANA SHIPS) 53 words
    9. REBUILDING, LIVERPOOL 48 words
    10. COMMUNIST COUNTRIES (VISITS) 74 words